musjjh@lure.latrobe.edu.au (05/19/91)
I know that this is a dumb question because such an immensely useful bit of software would already be well known to me and half the planet, but... Is their anything vaguely resembling a public domain equivellent of "Freedom of the Press" in existence? (ie. a postscript interpreter enabling you to send postscript files to stylewriters, deskjets and so on) All the Best Jason Hellwege La Trobe Uni, MElbourne, Oz.
francis@trillian.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) (05/20/91)
In article <1991May19.194922.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au> musjjh@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes: Is their anything vaguely resembling a public domain equivellent of "Freedom of the Press" in existence? (ie. a postscript interpreter enabling you to send postscript files to stylewriters, deskjets and so on) First of all, you have to realize that PostScript itself is not PD: it's property of Adobe, and you have to pay them for a license if you're going to interpret it. I *think* PostScript 1.0 is PD now, but I'm not sure. There is, however, something called GhostScript, which is a PD version of PostScript; I think it's from the GNU people. Don't know how they managed it, or whether an interpreter is available for Mac (my guess would be no; FSF hates Apple). -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/